You have your interpretation and the studies authors have another. A newer study backs the author's original conclusions:
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1299270,00.html Suse is flat while Red Hat and Canonical have both grown substantially. Xandros, Mepis and other M$ deal makers are not mentioned. There can be a lot of reasons for this but the obvious one works best and the numbers show that the revolt is real. Companies that strongly rejected M$'s deal have grown while Suse has not. The article's authors are sceptical but alternate speculations don't make as much sense as Alfresco's do. Whatever the reason, the numbers deny the advantage of being a M$ partner. Enterprise customers see more value in Red Hat and Ubuntu than they do in Suse. It is easy to attribute this to an underlying principle: people interested in GNU/Linux don't like the things M$ does to them and want their freedom. No, I don't trust Novell's numbers anymore than I'd trust M$ about market share. Alfresco, Red Hat and IBM also turn up in two other stories today: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/080808-linux-patent-pool-to-push.html There are good guys and bad guys in the patent fight and the difference is clear. Alfresco has also opened up it's content management system: http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/enterprise/2008/0808080907.asp?S=Content%20Management&A=CNT&O=google _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
